I carry a torch in one hand
and a bucket of water in the other
with these things
I am going to set fire to Heaven
and put out the flames of Hell
so that voyagers to God
can rip the veils
and see the real goal.
God loved the birds and invented the trees, men loved the birds and invented cages
" We are each a living manifestation of divinity. To know ourself is to know god. So next time you pray for something do it with the knowledge that the answers lie within."
Believing in Love is like believing in God. You've gotta have faith because you want to, not because you want something requited.
"I was challenged to believe that it's time for some of us or some group of people to really have to sacrifice something before all of us and our children have nothing left to sacrifice."
The Lord is beyond the perception of most but not all of us.
What religion you are doesn't matter. You don't even have to have a religion to come to The Lord. Everyone comes to The Lord eventually, even atheists.
Have Faith in everything you do....and Jesus shall fulfill your request.
I want to have a lasting experience with God. Sometimes I feel like I understand the divinity of this world, but then I loose it because I get distracted by my petty desires and fears.
I want to be with God all the time. But I don't want to be a monk, or totally give up worldly pleasures.
I guess what I want to learn is how to leave in this world and enjoy its delights, but also elevate myself to God.
You don't have to know the key people, when you know the keeper of the keys!
Believe in God like you believe in the sunrise. Not because you can see it, but because you can see everything it touches.
Freedom and unity are two sides of same coin. We have been claiming freedoms in political sense BUT it is more of that, it truly is SPRITUAL and no matter what new system of politics or economics we create we will not be satisfied BECAUSE 1st we have to start the journey of OUR Soul's Unity with the Ultimate Being ...from their better cultures and lifestyles will emerge ...ONLY THEN ....UNITE !
Christ is not the self, but that which remains when there is no self. He is the form (the vessel) that is identical with the substance, and he is not multiple forms, but one eternal form. Christ is the act, the manifestation and extension of God that is not separate from God. We cannot comprehend "that" which acts or "that" which smiles, but we all know the act - the smile that is Christ himself. Thus Christ turns out to be all that is knowable about God, because without his acts, God could not be known. Act itself is God's revelation and this revelation is not separate from God but is God himself. This I believe is what Christ would have us see; this is his completed message to man. But who can understand it?
It is one step, and a giant one, to see clearly and participate in the love that flows between the persons of the Trinity, but even here, God is seen as the object of his own love. It is yet another step to realize that God is beyond all subject and object and is Himself love without subject or object. This is the step beyond our highest experiences of love and union, a step in which self is not around to divide, separate, objectify or claim anything for itself. Self does not know God; it cannot love him, and from the beginning has never done so.
Only God is love, and for this love to be fully realized self must step aside. And not only do we not need a self to love God, but for the same reason we do not need a mind to know him, for that in us which knows God, is God.
Whoever was responsible for the idea of dividing self into lower and higher parts committed a serious crime against humanity. This division has given rise to the notion that the lower (ego and immature) self must be overcome while the higher (unitive and whole) self must be sought as the goal of human realization. Out of ignorance, I too clung to this notion because I believed it was this higher self that would be united with God for all eternity. It took a long time before my experiences led me to doubt this conviction and, at the same time, let in the possibility that this was not the whole truth and that there was still further to go.
As each soul brings what it has learned from its life experience, that which is God is enriched but the soul that comes to God is not the soul you have lived with, it is the soul you were born with, enriched by your life experience but not tainted by it. God does not evolve, neither does the soul you were born with as they are a constant and evolved far beyond human beings.
God did not evolve. Humankind's understanding of God did. God has pretty much been the same but we as human's only know a little about God. prophets have given humankind glimpses of God through the ages. Religions have interpreted and rewritten the original writings of the prophets in an effort to instill the values they believed God (and each particular religion's leadership) wanted to instill in their followers and converts. The Lord's infinite wisdom only allows humanity to get what humanity needs incrementally, depending on the evolution of the human race. These things are revealed through The Lord's Prophets. To put it more succinctly, God has not evolved, humanity has.
To love, live, and serve an everlasting God
Have faith---God is near
God is a sadist with a concious and we're all just toys to be played with; the whole point of our existence is to live, love tragically, and then die.
Some day after we have mastered the wind
the waves, the tides, and gravity
we shall harness for God the energies of love.
Then for the second time in history of the world
man will have discovered fire.
During the sitting, when the eyes closed the body relaxed and seemed to turn to warm liquid with all vestiges of the worries and anxiety of earlier oozing away and falling into a deep state of peace. After some while it felt as if I was looking into the abyss of nothingness. I felt the surrender and the possibility of dying was a natural next step. Give all of it up and drown in the Oneness of God. I knew that was all I had ever wanted. It was at that stage that all the build-up of the mindbody package that I knew to be "me/myself/I" seemed to slip off and was moved to the side, sort of floating to the left. Then the eyes opened and it was as if nothing had changed, yet with the feeling that everything had transformed irreversibly. Utterly unable to place what had actually happened, and with no desire to place it.
I believe in God, but not as one thing, not as an old man in the sky. I believe that what people call God is something in all of us. I believe that what Jesus and Mohammed and Buddha and all the rest said was right. It's just that the translations have gone wrong.
"Prayer is not an act of worship merely, the bending of the knee on set occasions, and offering petitions in need. It is an attitude of soul, opening the life on the Godward side, and keeping free communication with the world of spirit."
God's love, never fails.
With hurricanes, tornadoes, fires out of control, mudslides, flooding, severe thunderstorms tearing up the country from one end to another, and with the threat of bird flu and terrorist attacks, are we sure this is a good time to take God out of the Pledge of Allegiance?
From the depths of slumber,
As I ascend the spiral stairway of wakefulness,
I whisper:
God! God! God!
Thou art the food, and when I break my fast
Of nightly seperation from Thee,
I taste Thee, and mentally say:
God! God! God!
No matter where I go, the spotlight of my mind
Ever keeps turning on Thee,
And in the battle din of activity my silent war-cry is ever:
God! God! God!
When boisterous storms of trials shriek
And worries howl at me,
I drown their noises, loudly chanting:
God! God! God!
When my mind weaves dreams
With threads of memories,
On that magic cloth I do emboss:
God! God! God!
Every night, in time of deepest sleep,
My peace dreams and calls: Joy! Joy! Joy!
And my joy comes singing evermore:
God! God! God!
In waking, eating, working, dreaming, sleeping,
Serving, meditating, chanting, divinely loving,
My soul constantly hums, unheard by any:
God! God! God!
"Sacred Activism is the fusion of the mystic's passion for God with the activist's passion for justice, creating a third fire, which is the burning sacred heart that longs to help, preserve, and nurture every living thing."
